Crossing the border with Blue Jays beat reporter Jordan Bastian.

ALCS Game 3 pregame

CLEVELAND – During one of my trips to Cleveland during the regular season, I made a point of heading over to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I could’ve spent the whole visit poring over the display case for the Grunge Era. They also had a special exhibit on The Clash at the time, which was pretty sweet.

Right now, the special exhibit on display is on The Doors, which I may go take a look at some time this week — possibly tomorrow. I wrote in this week’s Jays mailbag, track 10 on the Doors’ 1970 album "Morrison Hotel" is the song "Indian summer." Fitting, considering I’m here at the Jake to cover the Indians prolonged summer.

I didn’t blog yesterday due to my utter lack of sleep and energy. Along with most of the other writers, I was at Fenway Park on Saturday night well beyong 3 am and I had an early flight to catch to Cleveland. An hour of sleep and it was off to the airport and then to the ballpark to get right back to work. I nearly didn’t get here either.

My flight was going through Laguardia in New York — all the directs were sold out — and when I got there, they told me I didn’t have a seat. Nice. Shortly before they started boarding, though, I was able to get on. Crisis averted. Both in Boston and in New York, the gates directly next to the one I was at had flights going back to Toronto. God certainly has a sense of humor.

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